We Have Things To Break, Help Us Break Said Things

By Peter Ha | February 23, 2010 | +

We currently have two products in the lab that need to be tested – Casio Exilim EX-G1 (a camera) and Casio G’zOne Brigade (a cell phone). Both products are of the rough and tumble variety, so our goal is to break them. How should we do it? Everything will be caught on camera so sky’s the limit.

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d3vv3r

Give them to a toddler?
doubleang

start with the normal breakage reasons: leave on the roof of the car and drive off, throw it in anger, get shot in the chest but it happens to block the bullet; that sort of thing.
In this age of vampire and zombie movies, perhaps you could test how well it holds up to a good stake.
It claims to be waterproof up to 10 feet. It also claims to be impact resistant to 7 feet. Stick it in 9 feet of water, and then try to hit it with something.

thats all i got.
jmatera

You can put both the camera and the phone in one of those T-Shirt bazookas and stand about 3 feet away from a brick wall and fire them into the wall. That should test the G-force either of those products can take.
hatedqaguy

Run it over – regular car
Run it over – SUV
Run it over – Monster truck
Run it over – Tank
Send it down any of the olympic Ski courses
Throw it off the top of a building
Throw it through a wall
Deep fry it
Leave it on a subway track
Skip it across a pond
IED
Place it on Pad 39A during a Space shuttle launch
Flamethrower
Throw it against bullet proof glass
Stomp on it with metal cleats
Leave it out in the rain
Bury it in an avalanche
Two words: Tornado Alley
Leave it in Death Valley
Wrap it in food and place in lion’s den
White water raft the Colorado river with it
Play “phone baseball” with it
Let me help break it :-)
http://www.lacunae.com/ Douglas Wolk

That thing seriously reminds me of the Wasp T12 Speechtool: http://www.trashbat.co.ck/t12/index.html (URL, and indeed site itself, probably only funny if you’ve seen “Nathan Barley”).
gratiaplena

What you need is to call up the Estwing and Craftsman people and secure their best hammers and make it a double feature: a comparison test of the hammers and a durability test of the products.
randomwhatnotsproductions

Gently tap them against the kitchen counter, and then apologize to them.
Brew

Go to a bar. Drink too much. THEN start using it.
http://theuselessinformationfile.wordpress.com wolvenspectre

One thing I can think of:

WILL IT BLEND!!!!

;-P
bignumone

Give it to my little girl and her friend.
They will play with it to death.

Oooh, or give it to my brother! He has been told (by his own kids) that he should be a product tester because he can break anything. The more expensive, the faster he can break it.
cmonstah

strap a firecracker to ‘em and toos them off the 8th floor deck of the Time & Life building…
cmonstah

i mean TOSS.
http://jillgazelle.wordpress.com jillgazelle

shirley you have broken them already……what worked????